Status Updates From The Republic

hehehe i love philosophy so much

Very frustrating at times but interesting all the same

Finished Book VII and commentary by Bloom.
This was the turning point Book for me after reading Bloom's commentary.

Book VI has by far been the most difficult to understand. Ancient Greek, translated to and Old English grammar structure, where the explanations of concepts are wholly verbal and every ounce of the description has to be understood before you receive an expansion on the topic on the following page. A brutal abstract thinking exercise but satisfying when it makes sense. Lots of re-reading.

Feb 26, 2026, Reached 05:36:36 (41%), Total time 13:25:42, Up from 32%

I’m so sick but I will be in class and I will be active in discussion

Plato is so far winning every imaginary argument. It's like watching a Sorkin show.

Pocos libros hay que generen esta sensación tan increíble de puro entusiasmo por la lectura, por la filosofía en casi todas sus ramas (aquí Platón habla prácticamente de todo lo que podía hablarse en su época y localización geográfica) que la República, y prueba de ello es que literalmente he dedicado toda la tarde y buena parte de la noche a leer la República casi ininterrumpidamente. Es pura medicina para el alma.

Presenting on book 6 tmrw pray 4 me

Feb 22, 2026, Reached 04:18:19 (32%), Total time 13:25:42, Up from 20%

Finished Book 6:
shifts from the city's structure to epistemology and metaphysics, explaining why only philosophers grasp true justice. Introducing key ideas about knowledge, reality, the Form of the Good (vs fleeting opinions, pleasures), Philosopher-kings, and the divided line analogy (hierarchy of reality & knowledge imagining a line divided unequally into visible and intelligible realms, each further subdivided.

“On the other hand, when someone appropriates assets the assets of the citizen body and then goes on to rob them of their very freedom and enslave them, then denigration gives way to congratulation.”
-Page 27

It took me quite a while just to get through the introduction, but it was written in a very enjoyable style so I didn't mind as much.


For this book it was pretty helpful to have a general idea when this was written and why. So apparently Plato was 50 when he wrote his Republic/Constitution and it was an open criticism of how Athen was ruled at the time. Apparently this was pretty controversial.

my kefir exploded in my work bag on this book so reading is on hold for the moment

Book I dismantles every comfortable idea of justice—tradition, loyalty, power. What begins as a polite debate turns into a clash between serving others and serving oneself. Is justice obedience, advantage, or the health of the soul? By the end, nothing is settled—except the possibility that living well and winning in life may not be the same thing.

do not study political theory you will never escape this fucking book

seriously, why am i doing this

“If you’re good in war you can be gay with whoever you want”
“By Zeus, Socrates, that is also my opinion”

What a book

hating life

God help me I cannot keep up with my reading

reading Book VI

(42:15 audible)

RIP to my goodreads when I start this full time job 😔 I simply won’t read as well as I do now

Someone force me to catch up on my reading sos

“Yesterday I went down to the Piraeus with Glaucon the son of Ariston to worship the goddess and also because I wanted to see how they would conduct the festival on this, its first performance.”

thinking about when we were discussing this in class today and i literally wrote in my notes "a 2010s YA dystopian main character would've thrived in this city" and immediately after a guy asked about what would happen if people were divergent and could fit into different classes and everyone was like this is so true like we were all thinking it except my prof apparently but now he's gonna go read it

✔️ Book 1 + corresponding interpretive essay in back

half asleep again

it past 1 AM and i only got through this much cus of it

‘all the pursuits of men are the pursuits of women also, but in all of them a woman is inferior to a man’ plato u r on thin ice mf

Bro is hitting all the categories of philosophy and makes some pretty compelling arguments. Other arguments don't make any sense to my 21st century American mind. What's a triangle got to do with defining the soul???